Court Upholds Samsung Galaxy Ban - Wall Street Journal

BY ARCHIBALD PREUSCHAT AND MARTIN RAPP

AMSTERDAM—Apple Inc. on Friday scored another win against Samsung Electronics Co. in a global patent war as a German court backed an injunction banning the South Korean company from selling its tablet computers in Germany.

The court in Düsseldorf upheld a preliminary injunction gained by Apple at the beginning of August against Samsung's PC Galaxy 10.1, which is widely considered the most promising challenger to Apple's iPad. However, the ban remains under appeal from Samsung, and a ruling on whether the Galaxy is too similar to the iPad remains subject to a later trial.

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